Once again the reason tell me to write something to point out what is the other point of view of the facts , not the one spreaded by the "traditional media" (El Mercurio,El Austral de Temuco, La Tercera...
) about what is happening with the original inhabitants of this land (South of Chile and Argentina) , the wrongly called "Araucanos","aborigins" were indeed the Original Owners and the right name among them is Mapuches (Mapu:earth che:people , People of the earth , as "belonging to the earth")
The government is applying a Law pronounced by pinochet known as "National security Law antiTerrorism"
Ley Nº 18.314 , that means that if they are catched in riots while protesting against the Landlords (Mainly from the right wing and supporters of the dead dictator pinochet ) to get back the lands that were usurped (literally) to them , all the weight of this law is applied to them, that means : unfair trials ,dubious masked witness, torture , enprisonment , waste of civil rights and persecution to their families and on and on..
The State of Chile is a hard preacher of the most crude turbocapitalism , since 1973 when pinochet came to power thanks to the coup d'etat backed by the united states, the economy was "revitalized" trought a group of former students of the chicago university, following the measures suggested by G.w.Bush's friend , Milton Friedmann.

Strategic and big companies owned by the state were "privatized" , that means transfered to weird anonym societies created and managed by supporters,friends,members of the pinochet government, family members (including a son in law indeed) ..all that to ensure that the real control of a country and their resources will stay in the right wing.

The National Party (now reborn as Renovacion Nacional and the UDI) has its origins in the landlords or "Latifundistas" owners of large hectare of terrain across the country (mainly in the south and more specifically in the IX Region de la Araucania,which regional Capital is Temuco),they were the sons and descendant of the first Colonos brought here by Vicente Perez Rosales ca 1850,mainly of german,swiss,italian and french origin (including a Boers colony in the sourroundings of Gorbea) .
After 20 years of Link (sometimes a moderate Link) government ,and a good marketing plan,Chile has now an speculator and impresario as president.
Ena Von Baer spokeswoman of the government,Felipe Kast (Mideplan Ministry ), Christian Larroulet (Economy Ministry),Carolina Schmidt (Women Dept. Ministry),Ricardo Raineri (Energy Ministry) and many more Seremis (Regional ministry secretary) are the sons,grandsons of the above mentioned colonos,all of them well accomodated,well educated with MBA in Harvard,Chicago,YAle....
Von Baer
Kast Larroulet
They all preach about the inefficiency of the former link government to figure out the problems of Chile,one of the reason why piñera was elected as new president,including the mapuche's conflict without
mentioning that were themselves,the right wing, who didn't legislate in favour of many laws regardind equality,impots,land transfer,education,infrastructure,Human rights and so on.
Now we have an "indigenous Law" made without indigenous , a law conceived from its origin without consulting the point of view of whose the document was taking into account.
Considering the current situation where big National and foreign Companies do what they want,regardless of the environment,the meaning of the land for the mapuches and the public opinion, where the "progress and development" is argued as main excuse , where decisions are taken by a handful of influential impresarios and sold M.P.'s (Last Example Aquaculte&fishing Law,where hectare of border Sea is now property of the
Salmon Breeding Companies,law backed up by the RIGHT wing),personally only rests to me to comprehend the reaction and movilization of the descendants of Leftraru (Lautaro) , Kallfü-likan (Caupolicán), , Galvarino who are the emblem of a message,a message of the soul, the real meaning of being mapuche, that cries for the respect of another way to be , another way to speak to nature,ancestors,spirits.
Lef Traru (Lautaro)
Kallfü-likan (Caupolicán)
The Government of Piñera is just how to made numbers look good, he will support any measure to bring wealthy to anyone , no matter the cost nor the strategy.The growth "Ad-Finitum" is driving this country mad,more houses, more buildings,more energy.And energy is the bussines for this big companies that in the name of development have changed,are changing and will change the face of Chile. Unable (mentally&technically) to invest in Renovable energie , almost monopolized by Endesa (once national,but during pinochet regime privatized,among them chispas,where
Jose Yuraszeck UDI , ex Patria y Libertad, current inversionist in Universidad de Chile F.c. sold it in an unfair process called "caso chispas"),the spaniards of endesa are expert in lobbying , in alliance with Telefonica , Movistar and several other companies are the perpetuators of the endless economic colonization facilitated by the power of money , corruption and lobbying.
Yuraszeck
Nazi orientated Patria Y libertad Sad,very sad the panorama for this country , don't buy the message from the press , ha ha! that´s another story by itself, featuring the people's tax supported (w/o return) "El Mercurio" (Merculo for the friends) owned by the edwards family , the media; CHV (owned by piñera himself..),C13,Megavision all of them of known tendency.
One war crie that I admire a lot is when mapuches say :
MARICHIWEW! MARICHIWEW! , which means
Ten times alive, Ten times we'll win!!
In the meantime the descendants of the europeans landlords like René urban , Luchsinger and many more are thinking may be,
...why we didn't kill them all?
Rene Urban
Jorge Luchsinger
Also becareful with the mtfcks in the parliament :
José Garcia Ruminot
Germán Becker ,
José Manuel Edwards landlords in the parliament legislating for themselves
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July 2010